| 单词 | meditate |
| 释义 | meditate (once / 215 pages) v When you meditate, you silently calm or focus your mind for relaxation or spiritual reasons. People who meditate regularly can put a stop to racing thoughts, making them less distracted. When you meditate, you focus on your breathing while sitting calmly. Some people mediate to reduce stress, while others see it as part of their spiritual practice. Meditate can also be used to describe any deep thinking you do, like when you meditate on what to say to a friend who is feeling sad lately. The Latin word for "ponder," meditari, is the root of meditate. WORD FAMILYmeditate: meditated, meditates, meditating, meditation, meditative, premeditate+/meditation: meditations/meditative: meditatively, meditativeness/premeditate: premeditated, premeditating, premeditation/premeditated: premeditatedly, unpremeditated/premeditation: premeditations/unpremeditated: unpremeditatedly USAGE EXAMPLESOn bad days, she will retreat into a room and meditate. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) On bad days, when she’s really thinking of her son, she will retreat into a room and meditate. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) It meditates on the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1v reflect deeply on a subject Syn|Hypo|Hyper chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over premeditate think or reflect beforehand or in advance theologise, theologizemake theoretical speculations about theology or discuss theological subjects introspectreflect on one's own thoughts and feelings bethinkconsider or ponder something carefully cogitateconsider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind question, wonderplace in doubt or express doubtful speculation puzzlebe uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide consider, studygive careful consideration to factor, factor in, factor outconsider as relevant when making a decision compare, equate, likenconsider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous scruplehave doubts about cerebrate, cogitate, think use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments 2v think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes He is meditating in his study Syn|Hyper contemplate, study cerebrate, cogitate, think use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments |
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